TORONTO, March 25, 2022 /CNW/ – CIBC (TSX: CM) (NYSE: CM), as manager, today announced a change to the fee structure for the Imperial Portfolios and the Income Generating Portfolios (each, a “funds“and collectively, the”funds“) listed in Appendix A of this press release.
Effective July 1, 2022, the funds will no longer be responsible for paying certain costs that are currently classified as operating expenses. There is no impact for unitholders regarding this change.
Benefits to unitholders include protection against potential increases in certain future operating expenses. Before applicable taxes, the MER for each class of each fund should also be less than or equal to the most recently published MER. The Funds’ Independent Review Committee has reviewed the introduction of a change to the fee structure with respect to potential conflict of interest issues and issued its positive recommendation, having determined that the change to the structure fees achieves a fair and reasonable result for each fund.
Unitholders of the following classes of the funds do not need to approve the change to the fee structure. They will receive at least 60 days notice prior to the implementation of the change, in accordance with applicable securities laws:
Funds |
Classes |
Imperial pools and revenue generation |
Class A, Class W, Class T3, Class T4, Class T5, |
Annex A
Imperial Pools Imperial Money Market Fund Imperial Short Term Bond Pool Imperial Canadian Bond Pool Imperial Canadian Diversified Income Pool Imperial International Bond Pool Imperial High Income Equity Pool Imperial Canadian Dividend Income Pool Imperial Global Equity Income Pool Imperial Canadian Equity Pool Imperial U.S. Equity Pool Imperial International Equity Pool Imperial Overseas Equity Pool Emerging Economies Imperial Pool |
Income Generating Portfolios Conservative Income Portfolio Balanced Income Portfolio Enhanced Income Portfolio
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